Awardee: Elizabeth Irish, Schaffer Library of Health Sciences, Albany Medical CollegeProject: Educating K-12 Professionals to Meet the Health Information Needs of Special Needs Children and Their Parents: A Collaborative Outreach Project of Albany Medical College and the East Greenbush Central School District

New to LinkOut or have questions about this service? Veronica Robinson Garrett will be our guest speaker for this session. Veronica is a member of the LinkOut team at the National Library of Medicine. She will define LinkOut and discuss its services, the Library Submission Utility and localizing PubMed. I will also share the training and educational resources we have available for libraries.

NN/LM MAR is pleased to be a sponsor of the MLA 2014 Patient Engagement Symposium and encourages you to apply for a professional development award to cover the registration fee (Award monies can not be applied to travel or per diem to the MLA conference, only registration for the CE).

Saturday, May 17th, 2014, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Cost: $200.00 (nonmember, $380)

MLA CE Contact Hours: 4

Libraries and librarians have long been providing services and health information to patients and their families in the healthcare setting and in the community. With health care reform and the complexity of the entire health care system increasing, the move toward patient-centered care has reached the consciousness of almost every health care professional and institution.

The Patient Experience and Engagement: Improving Patient Centered Care One Person at a Time Symposium is designed for librarians and other information professionals working with patients, case managers, consumers and librarians on clinical care and health education teams. Through this symposium participants will gain a better knowledge of the many definitions of patient engagement and discuss and explore new and existing methods of how to connect the public and providers with quality health information resources and tools, including the Patient Engagement Framework.

This half day long symposium will consist of:

Keynote speaker, Stephen Wilkins, author of the blog Mind the Gap , which discusses evidence-based insights on how physicians and patients communicate and engage with each other.

A panel of invited speakers who will provide their perspectives based on the role they play in their institutions or through their own experiences as patients. Panel speakers include T. Scott Pulchack, Associate Professor and Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ruti Volk, a patient education librarian, and Judy C. Stribling, Assistant Librarian at Weill Cornell Medical College and Manager of the Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center (MMPRC).

Small breakout sessions to discuss different patient engagement strategies introduced in the Symposium and those shared by the symposium participants.

I wanted to let you that registration is now available for the following conference coming up next month. Early bird registration rates are available through Friday, 4/11/14. Kelli Ham from our office will be attending. We’ve also just learned that IHA is also offering five scholarships for conference registration fees (no support for travel or lodging expenses). To apply for the scholarships, interested applicants should send an email to Michael Villaire, mvillaire@iha4health.orgno later than Wednesday, April 16 at 5 pm PDT, with the following information: